One way to avoid these little arguments and protect one's sword-cane is to be abysmally ignorant about popular culture. I have no idea whether The Prisoner and Space: 1999 were movies, TV shows, or radio dramas, let alone which one was better. I do prefer the elegant simplicity of the faceless sword-cane on the right, but there's no need to argue about it.

"Infinitely" superior? No. "Vastly", I'll give you. Space: 1999 had cool ship designs, in fact the only TV-scifi ship designs other than some in Babylon 5 that actually have propellant tanks, but it also had a premise the average eighth-grader would laugh at. The Prisoner, whatever else you can say about it, at least isn't stupid.

Space: 1999 was dire. The ridiculous premise of the space-faring moon, the weak plots, the never-ending supply of Eagle Transporters (at least one blew up every week), the incompetent leadership, a shapeshifter (FFS!), a love interest between two thick dorks, outfits to die-in-shame for.

I was 10 when it came out and I knew then it was dreadful.

The puppets in Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet far outclassed the muppets in Space: 1999.